“I don’t know anything about agents, which ones to trust, the publishing world,all that stuff,” said Mr. Buzzell, 28, who now lives in Los Angeles, trying tofigure out what to do next. “My intention was just to screw around; [writing abook] wasn’t my intention. Once the agents started contacting me, I was like,‘Shit, when I come back out of the Army, I’m going to be back to what I wasdoing before’—just temp jobs, screwing around.’ So I thought I’d do it.”